Overview

• The FBI has opened criminal investigations into former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey.
• The probes focus on alleged false statements to Congress regarding their roles in shaping the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment and the disputed inclusion of the Steele dossier.
• The declassified CIA lessons-learned review faulted leadership overreach, compressed deadlines, and analytic shortcomings in the original Russia interference report.
• Justice Department sources say the FBI now views Brennan and Comey’s actions during the Trump-Russia inquiry as constituting a conspiracy.
• The investigations were launched less than 24 hours after the DOJ declined to release additional Jeffrey Epstein case files, prompting critics to accuse the FBI of partisan timing.